Travel$ense User's Guide (PDF, 139 MB) - NBAA

TRAVEL$ENSEPRODUCTIVE HOURS199This measure on Tab 5 calculates the productive hours during all phases of thetrip using the airline trip cycle, door to door. Site time during business hours is100 percent productive, enroute travel time is broken down and valued by class(type of aircraft less leg time, drive time if valued, ground time excluded,etc.)and finally extra site is compared (multiplier for airline time, 100 percent isbefore/after trip for corporate option during business hours). This calculationincludes productive time enroute from Tab 4, as well as other aspects ofproductive time not reported elsewhere.PRODUCTIVE TIME ENROUTEThis represents a positive return to the company for the value of productivetime utilized aboard aircraft for all passengers on all legs. This is calculatedbased upon the amount of time each passenger spends in flight (on threedifferent aircraft options) on each leg minus the unproductive Leg Dead Timefor airline or business aircraft (defined under Defaults, Time) on each leg, timesthe hourly compensation rate for individual passengers on the trip legincorporating their multipliers, times the user-defined estimates of theproductivity possible for that environment (set separately for airline jet andturboprop aircraft in the Defaults, Airline, and individually for business aircraftin the aircraft database).TIME-TRIGGERED EXPENSESTravel$ense automatically allocates expenses to each passenger based on theamount of time they are away from home, both travel time, site time and nonproductivetime (e.g. overnight stay). The default expense amounts andapplicable start and end times drive the expense allocation. For a given expensetype, the default expense amount is applied if a passenger is away from home atleast 50 percent of the time defined by the start and end times in the defaults.Using this approach, breakfast, lunch, dinner and other expenses are allocatedindividually.TOTAL DIRECT TRIP COSTSThe total of the three cost categories: cost of air service, cost of employeetravel time (door to door) and other trip expenses. These three categorieshave been grouped together because they represent hard dollars. Checks havebeen cut to pay for these items. There is a paper trail as well – pay stubs,expense reports, receipts, etc.TRUE COST OF EMPLOYEE TRAVEL TIMEThe value of employee travel time for all passengers, calculated individually andtotaled at individually defined employee-passenger compensation rates, businesshours, weeks/year, and travel times, door to door, for all legs via three differentCopyright © 1999, National Business Aviation Association, Inc.